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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | Ship country = United Kingdom | UK|naval}} | Ship name = HMS Tanatside | Ship owner = | Ship namesake = | Ship ordered = 23 August 1940 | Ship builder = Yarrow Shipbuilders | Ship laid down = 23 June 1941 | Ship launched = 30 April 1942 | Ship acquired = | Ship commissioned = August 1942 | Ship decommissioned = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = Loaned to the Royal Hellenic Navy in 1946 | Ship struck = | Ship reinstated = | Ship identification = pennant number: L69 | Ship honours = ATLANTIC 1943 - ENGLISH CHANNEL 1943 - NORMANDY 1944 - BISCAY 1944 | Ship badge=On a Field per fess wavy White and Blue, an oak tree eradicated proper enfiled with a mural crown Gold. | Ship fate = Scrapped in January 1964 | Ship status = | Ship notes =
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header =title | Ship country = Greece | Greece|royalnavy}} | Ship name = Adrias | Ship owner = | Ship namesake = | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = | Ship acquired = | Ship commissioned = | Ship decommissioned = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship struck = | Ship reinstated = | Ship honours = | Ship identification = pennant number: D06 | Ship fate = Returned to the Royal Navy in August 1962 | Ship status = | Ship notes =
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Hunt|destroyer}} | 1050|LT|t}} standard- {{convert|1435|LT|t}} full load
| 85.3|m|ftin|abbr=on}} o/a | 10.16|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | 3.51|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship propulsion=*2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers- 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19,000 shp
| 27|kn|mph km/h|lk=in}}- {{convert|25.5|kn|mph km/h|abbr=on}} full
| 2350|nmi|km|abbr=on|lk=in}} at {{convert|20|kn|km/h|abbr=on}} | Ship endurance= | Ship boats= | Ship complement=168 | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=*4 × QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX- 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII on quad mount MK.VII
- 2 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III
- 2 × {{convert|21|in|mm|0|abbr=on}} torpedo tubes
- 110 depth charges, 4 throwers, 3 racks
| Ship armour = | Ship notes =
}} | HMS Tanatside was a {{sclass2-|Hunt|destroyer|0}} destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Yarrow in April 1942. Ships of this class were designed as cheap, easily built vessels for convoy escort and antisubmarine duties. She was named like her sisters after a fox hunt, in her case one in North Wales. War bonds were issued to finance the building of warships. Tanatside was funded by people from Tregaron, Aberaeron, New Quay, Aberystwyth and Teifiside, in a nod to the ship's name. Plaques were presented to each of these townships.[1] During a Warship Week held between 14 and 21 March 1942 the civil community of the Welsh county of Cardiganshire adopted the ship. Service HistoryTanatside took part in Operation Tunnel anti shipping forays and was present at Omaha Beach, where she approached the beach to assist in the destruction of German defences.In December 1945 Tanatside was reduced to care and maintenance at Malta.[2]Greek service{{other ships|Greek ship Adrias}}In 1946 she was transferred to the Greek Navy and renamed Adrias. She was removed from the effective list in 1963 and scrapped in 1964.[3] References1. ^Ceredigian County Council
2. ^Critchley, Mike, "British Warships Since 1945: Part 3: Destroyers", Maritime Books: Liskeard, UK, 1982. {{ISBN|0-9506323-9-2}}, page 43
3. ^{{cite book|editor=Raymond V B Blackman |title=Jane's Fighting Ships 1963-4, |publisher=Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd |location=London |page=112}}
Publications- {{colledge}}
- English, John (1987). The Hunts: a history of the design, development and careers of the 86 destroyers of this class built for the Royal and Allied Navies during World War II. England: World Ship Society. {{ISBN|0-905617-44-4}}.
External links- HMS Tanatside at Museum collection
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